Partha Ghosh's insights on

Over the past four decades Partha Ghosh’s work with academia, corporates, governments, and public service organizations has been inspired by the thoughts and work of many leaders, - many he had directly worked with, and many he has revered all through his personal and professional life.

“At a fundamental level of our being, as our inner conscience is fired, - we all seek value in self-fulfillment through personal development and meaningful relationships with others” - Partha S. Ghosh

Below we bring together specific statements of a few great minds with whose thoughts Partha Ghosh has developed deep relationships, - and whose thoughts and deeds he believes, have had profound impact on how his professional and personal life has been unfolding.

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Marvin Bower

"A business of high principles attracts high caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive profit edge"

"People should be judged on the basis of their performance not nationality, personality, education or personal traits and skills"

Mother Teresa

"We will never know all the good that a smile could do"

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them your strength lies"

Kazuma Tateishi

"The most important aspect of the running a business is to make the corporate ideals clear. This provides the backbone of the business. It is vital to insure each member of the company, from the president down to newest employee, has the same answer to the question "for what reason do we all go work?"

"Don't say 'I can’t, but rather, ‘How can I?' '"

John F. Kennedy

"A many may die nations may rise and fail, but an idea live on"

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction"

"There are many kinds of courage-bravery under fine, courage to risk reputation and friendship and career for conviction which are deeply held. Perhaps the rarest courage of all for the skill to purse it is given to a very few men -is the courage to wage a silent battle to illuminate the nature of man and the world in which he lives"

Albert Einstein

"Perfection of means & confusion of goals seem, in my opinion to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety the welfare and free development of talents of men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state. Even if small part of mankind strives for such goals, their superiority will prove itself in the long-run"

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new"

Winston Churchill

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”

“To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often”

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give”

Alfred Pritchard Sloan

"The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs”

"There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only thing we have to fear is to fear itself"

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today"

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people, a nation does not have to cruel in order to be tough"

Rabindranath Tagore

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark"

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it"

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high: where knowledge is free, where the world has not been broken into fragments by narrow domestic walls........... ......into that heaven of freedom, my father let my country awake"

Thomas Alva Edison

"I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work"

"I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun"

Swami Vivekananda

"Our real awakening takes place when we dedicate our life to an Exalted Ideal"

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think, words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far"

"Have faith in yourself- all power is in you- be conscious and bring it out"

Karl Marx

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form"

"The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world"

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

"Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be..........Others will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back"

Adam Smith

"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience"

"The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer"

"Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary"

Isaac Newton

"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy"

"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion"

"All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer"

John Locke

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes that makes what we read ours"

"The need to find true happiness is the foundation of our freedom"

"The people are the supreme judge of how governments fulfill their mission because it is the person who gave them power and who care as such, the ability to revoke"

Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"

"You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor"

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness"

Plato

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the law"

"Human behavior flows from three main sources : desire, emotion and knowledge"